PodCastle 634: When I Was a WitchAuthor:
Charlotte Perkins GilmanNarrator:
Anaea LayHost:
Kitty SarkozyAudio Producer:
Peter BehraveshOriginally published in Gilman’s collection
When I Was a Witch and reprinted in Fantasy Magazine. This story is in the public domain.
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Show NotesRated PG.
If I had understood the terms of that one-sided contract with Satan, the Time of Witching would have lasted longer — you may be sure of that. But how was I to tell? It just happened and has never happened again, though I’ve tried the same preliminaries as far as I could control them.
The thing began all of a sudden, one October midnight — the 30th, to be exact. It had been hot, really hot, all day, and was sultry and thunderous in the evening; no air stirring, and the whole house stewing
with that ill-advised activity which always seems to move the steam radiator when it isn’t wanted.
I was in a state of simmering rage — hot enough, even without the weather and the furnace — and I went up on the roof to cool off. A top-floor apartment has that advantage, among others — you can take a walk without the mediation of an elevator boy!
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